Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Researchers in Japan and Cambodia have discovered coronaviruses which is similar to COVID-19. These are the first known relatives of SARS-Cov-2 to be found outside China and to be originated from horseshoe bats or Rhinolophus bats. It is still unknown if COVID-19 was transferred directly from bats to people or […]
Subhangi Das, Bankura Sammilani College SARS-COV2 infection causing COVID-19 disease can lead to severe multi – organ injuries and significant mortality in critical patients, particularly among those people with type 2 diabetes (T2D) as a comorbidity. These patients have worse outcomes as compared to the ones without diabetes mellitus. Although attenuated mortality was observed with aggressive […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Microbial Ecology known as environmental microbiology is the study of microorganisms’ relationship with each other as well as their environment. The main goal of researchers in this department is to capture the maximum amount of information from all organisms that are present in a given sample. Traditionally DNA-based protocols are […]
AISHILA KAR, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA Severe respiratory problem coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has fastly spread within the human population. In spite of the fact, SARS-CoV-2 is a novel coronavirus, most humans had been early exposed to other antigenically different common seasonal human coronaviruses (hCoVs) earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic. Few scientists have suggested that people might […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata The utilization of antibodies to battle human illness goes back to the 1890s and it is in practice even today. The blood plasma of patients who have recovered from COVID-19 contains antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus which is called plasma therapy and used as a treatment for people with coronavirus […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata The data on COVID-19 infections during pregnancy is limited. Although mortality or casualty due to the infection isn’t reported yet some adverse outcomes have been reported in the infants of women with covid-19 infections. The infant born to a COVID-19 infected mother has low birth weight, feeding intolerance, respiratory problems. Other […]
RUCHITA KARMAKAR, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA The unmatched sequencing efforts have as of October 2020, produced almost nearly 200,000 genomes of acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), causing havoc in the world, named as Covid-19. Understanding the drift in the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 is equally supreme in controlling this global pandemic. The major challenge lies in […]
Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela For transmission of viruses from one host to the next, virions must remain viable(infectious) in the period between release from the transmitting host and uptake by the recipient host. Thus environmental stability like ambient temperature and humidity of viruses determines the potential for fomite transmission and for mid-to-long range […]
Sayan Roy, Pondicherry University mRNA-1273 is a messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine, designed to fight against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). It is developed by a US-based pharmaceutical company- Moderna, in association with NIAID Vaccine Research Center. The mRNA-1273 vaccine encodes for the SARS-CoV-2 full-length spike glycoprotein trimer ‘S-2P’, but modified to incorporate two proline substitutions […]
Sagnik Nag, Amity University Kolkata The most recently discovered strain of SARS-CoV-2 was held accountable for corona virus disease (COVID-19) and the pandemic henceforth. Ongoing infection has taken the lives of a huge number of individuals on the planet. As of now there’s so much that we don’t know about this viral infection- it’s the […]
